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Principal Speech Therapist
Responsibilities
Clinical Management
- Provide clinical leadership and advanced clinical practice across a wide range of routine and complex cases. Responsibilities include:
- Assess, develop, plan, and implement speech therapy interventions to clients with speech, language, communication, and/or swallowing difficulties in accordance with programme approach, framework, and SOPs.
- Be part of the collaborative team (e.g., multi-, inter-, trans-disciplinary) to work with clients on a one-to-one basis, group, or special setting based on programme requirements and client levels of functioning.
- Monitor clients speech therapy progress, evaluate intervention effectiveness, and review clients speech therapy needs in accordance with programme requirements.
- Provide speech therapy consultation, support and update on the clients progress and status to caregivers and all those involved in the client care team.
- Refer clients to respective specialists (e.g., other therapists, psychologists, neurologists, doctors, etc.) for consultation and further treatment or training as and when necessary.
- Conduct home/school/workplace visits when necessary.
- Provide speech therapy-related training on relevant platforms when required.
- Provides consultation to speech therapists on complex cases and maintains consistent standards of care for complex cases across SPD programmes.
Clinical Administration
- Lead in new clinical service development in collaboration with internal and external partners to enhance service delivery and client care.
- Identify opportunities for clinical or operational improvement and collaborate with team members to test and evaluate innovative approaches.
- Lead departmental administrative duties and operational processes to support service delivery.
- Lead in service quality assurance initiatives, including audits, risk identification, and incident reporting.
- Manage and oversee team caseload allocation, ensuring equitable distribution and efficient utilisation of clinical resources.
- Advise on budget planning and resource needs for therapy equipment and materials for the division when required.
Clinical Teaching and Supervision
- Demonstrate strong supervisory capabilities and provide formal clinical supervision as primary supervisor to both Conditional-Registration and Full-Registration therapists.
- Build the supervisory capabilities of junior and new supervisors within the department/division.
- Mentor and coach senior speech therapists, contributing to their clinical and leadership development.
- Plan, organise, and deliver division-level continuing education and clinical training initiatives.
- Develop and implement competency development frameworks and supervision assessment tools to address clinical learning gaps.
Professional Development
- Demonstrate leadership in professional development and sector engagement through active participation in conferences, learning networks, and special interest groups.
- Steer research in the department by identifying clinical practice gaps, conducting research, and supervising research projects to address them.
- Guide evidence-based practice by participating in the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines.
- Champion knowledge translation within the department through training, case reviews, and integration of current evidence.
Other Activities
- Lead division-level initiatives, workgroups, or inter-departmental committees.
- Represent SPD in external networks or Communities of Practice (CoPs), including collaborations with Public Health Institutes (PHIs), other Social Service Agencies (SSAs), and/or Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs).
- Participate in events organised by SPD when required.
- Engage in any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Speech Therapy or its equivalent.
- Possess Full-Registration as a Speech Therapist under the Allied Health Professions Act 2011.
- Possess at least 10 years of clinical experience, with active practice in the last 5 consecutive years at a supervisory level.
- Has clinical practice experience in at least two community settings with demonstrated adaptability and sector-wide experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both within and outside of SPD.
- Fluency in local languages will be an advantage.
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